TETFund draws the line: Why delayed projects could cost varsities, polys, CoEs billions in 2027 funding

Fred Ezeh, Abuja Abuja
For more than three decades, the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has stood as the lifeline of infrastructure development in Nigeria’s public tertiary education sector.
From iconic senate buildings and modern lecture theatres to cutting-edge laboratories, engineering workshops, digital libraries, medical colleges and student hostels, the Fund has reshaped the physical landscape of universities, polytechnics and colleges of education across the country.
In many institutions, TETFund interventions have become synonymous with development. New academic complexes, research centres, entrepreneurship hubs and ICT facilities bearing the agency’s signature ...